Plenty of charismatic, respected people have been accused of sexually abusing children in the last few years. Larry Nassar, Catholic diocese across the world, the Southern Baptists, to name a few. And now that a documentary about Michael Jackson’s sexual abuse...

The Southern Baptist Church is no exception to being vulnerable to sex-offenders. They easily gain trust by their fake religiosity, feigned innocence, and sugary sweet behavior. People fear to suspect them, let alone confront them., how dare they? So entrenched are...

New York’s enactment of the Child Victims Act is an extraordinary achievement which has unleashed long-denied demands for accountability. Since the new law allows previously lapsed claims to be filed in court, the next issue for victims and survivors is how to access...

Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez’s voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders. She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger, a tiny prairie town an hour north of Dallas. It was the first...

It is not the boogie man behind the bush or the stranger on the street. Most sexually abused children are abused by someone they know that are close to them—90 percent. The damage being done due to the sexual abuse of children today and yesterday is overwhelming, and...